Star Battle Puzzle | Hoshi

Guriddo

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Hoshi (星, Japanese for star) is a free and competitive Star Battle game with daily challenges. Star Battle, also known as Two Not Touch, is regularly published in the New York Times logic puzzle section. If you enjoy playing tricky puzzles and brain-teasing games and seek a new challenge, then you should give Hoshi a try.

If you have never played the Star Battle logic game before, don’t worry the rules are straight forward:
Similar to other logic puzzles you have a grid that you need to fill. In a normal 2 star Two Not Touch game each row, column, and region must have exactly 2 stars. Stars are not allowed to touch, even not diagonally.

Hoshi includes Star Battles with 1-5 stars, but games with more stars are yet to come 😉


Hoshi offers you:
- Everyday we release a new number game (daily puzzle challenge)
- Track your solving time and compete against other players (leaderboards)
- There is also a weekly challenge for geniuses (3 star plus games)
- There are 5 different difficulties (easy to diabolical)
- Packs with hand-selected logic puzzle (e.g. for beginners)
- Guide with solving strategies
- Profile with stats about your skill level & progress

Coming soon:
- Add your friends and play with them a numbers puzzle
- Star Battle games with more than 5 stars

Ratings and reviews

The game is fun and honestly a good challenge. I only gave 3 stars because a lot of it is paid content and pro membership stuff so mostly only the daily and weekly puzzle are free. Edit: I realize that it is not easy to make and run an app, and I understand that you need to get back what you put in. I am not against supporting developers, just unable to. I only wish you could buy packs as a difficulty level set instead of each one individually

Very fun puzzle concept. I've spent so many hours on it. If you like sudoku you'll probably like this. I see some of reviews complain about paying for most of the packs, but you get 50 puzzles for free, plus daily and weekly puzzles. I'd say it would take about 25 hours to work through all the free puzzles, so its plenty of free playtime before you decide to pay or just do the daily puzzles.

Game is tailored around putting as much money in the dev's pocket. Need 1 hint? Get ready to sit and watch a 30 second ad if you don't already pay a subscription (which who in their right mind would do for a game like this?). And hints aren't always correct, which prompted this review. Was told to insert a star in the highlighted region (a single cell). I did so, then next hint said the star was incorrect. Cool, I guess. I only did what the app said to do. Off to find another similar puzzle app.

What’s new

- New Feature 🤗: 12 new packs, 350 puzzles.
- Update 😋: Genius & Weekly puzzles are fun again.
- Update 😋: A few games swapped out of the latest Genius and Wizard packs.
- Update 😋: Check now finds wrong dots, not just wrong stars.
- Problem solved 🤖: The pack list opens straight away.
- Problem solved 🤖: The random sign-out is gone, and fonts no longer break offline.